SIMON WARNER has found his true path in life as a video artist.

The Worth Valley artist is teaming up with three dancers and a musician for his latest project linked to the Pennine Way.

The quintet have prepared a mixed-artform performance entitled 50 Steps – Walking And Dancing The Pennine Way.

The production, which will be performed at five locations this year, pays tribute to the Pennine Way’s 50th anniversary year.

Simon said group members would walk a local section of the route during the day then improvise a response the same evening in a process called “immediate reimagining”.

He said: “The dancers will relive, reflect and interpret their shared experiences of the walk, accompanied by a live musical soundscape and life-mixed video clips.

“This will stimulate a mutual exchange between the five collaborators, each answering and challenging the others throughout the 30 to 40 minute event.”

Performances will be preceded by a short introduction to the geology and landscape of the Pennines, with research by William Valley of the West Yorkshire Geology Trust.

The production will be premiered on Saturday (April 25) at the South Square Gallery, Thornton, to accompany Simon’s exhibition at the venue, High Line, which features the work of several artists inspired by the Pennine Way.

There will also be performances at the Waterfront Hall, Hebden Bridge, on July 3, the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes on July 20, and during the autumn in Derbyshire and Cumbria.

Visit simonwarner.co.uk for further information including how to book.

Simon, who works with both photography and video, has contributed to a new exhibition at Hall Place and Gardens in Bexley, Kent, running until September 6.

Watershed – Art, Play And The Politics Of Water brings together 15 artists who look at water in playful, conceptual, political and meditative ways.